Andrew’s Wizardly Reads 13.4K subscribers · May 23, 2025

My Least Favorite Stephen King Books: What Didn’t Work for Me

  • Biggest Disappointments · 6 books

Reviews7

Disliked

It was inconceivable to me that the events lined up where like people were forwarding their mail or people were just happened to be out of town or Kujo's gone and killed everybody on the block and nobody's noticed and it just didn't ring true to me and it felt like it could have been so much shorter and I just didn't enjoy the reading experience of Kujo at all.

Liked

And Dolores is actually really good except for a section where we are dealing with Dolores and Vera her employer while basically Dolores has turned into this woman's caretaker and we're dealing with Vera trying to get revenge on Dolores or play tricks on Dolores by crapping herself.

Disliked

This is on the list, but it is more of an honorable mention because I'm only 40% through this, but I am bored to tears. This is Thinner by Richard Bachmann, aka Stephen King.

Disliked

And essentially this is some of the best character work that King does within the dark tower and sometimes I would say in general like Wizard and Glass is a really strong story and for some reason he felt the need to add in multiple sections of Gross Out. It wasn't a horror story to begin with. So, I don't know why he felt the need to inject gross out into the story, but it spoiled the entire reading experience for me.